Re: million files backup

2012-02-02 Thread Howard Coles
Have you tried using the memoryefficient=diskcache method? I'm assuming you have. Takes a while, but on fast systems I've had pretty decent results. You may need to go the virtual mount point route though with a file system that large. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original

Re: Windsows 2008 failover cluster, SQL Server and TSM

2012-01-25 Thread Howard Coles
client that would eat the password and then fail to start the scheduler, but I think that has been fixed in latter versions. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Boyer Sent: Wednesday, January 25

Re: Windsows 2008 failover cluster, SQL Server and TSM

2012-01-25 Thread Howard Coles
Oh, I forgot about the lack of replicate. Not sure what would cause the registry key replication to be grayed over, I've never seen that in a cluster that didn't have other more serious issues. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Re: Drive and Path Definition

2012-01-19 Thread Howard Coles
an Exabyte Library (well, that's using the term used loosely, it stunk), and several 3584's. Something isn't getting adjusted right in the TSM database, or it's having a hard time picking up the device serial number and/or WWN (at least that's what I would suspect). See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3

Re: Start dsmcad with upstart on RHEL6

2012-01-13 Thread Howard Coles
You can continue, with upstart, to use the standard init.d way of starting and stopping a service with upstart. I like upstart better than Plymouth for that reason. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

job in Twin Cities in Minnesota

2012-01-10 Thread Howard Coles
I just got a note from a recruiter in Minn. That's needing a TSM admin. Let me know if you are looking in that area, or are willing to go to that area, and I'll send you the contact info. I don't know the pay, never asked as I'm not looking to relocate. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. RHCE, CDE

Re: Question concerning large filepools on HP EVA

2011-12-07 Thread Howard Coles
as being unable to handle certain loads, they are liable. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Christian Svensson Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 8:39 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM

Re: multi-threaded Exchange backups

2011-11-28 Thread Howard Coles
I would also be interested. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Schaub, Steve Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 8:00 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] multi-threaded Exchange backups

Re: Migrating from AIX to Linux (again)

2011-11-17 Thread Howard Coles
time vs. cost very much favors pSeries. However, if you don't have someone who is familiar with that platform going RHEL on intel would make better sense. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf

Re: Adding TSM DB volumes

2011-11-17 Thread Howard Coles
Does the q db f=d look different now verses before? You should see more free space listed at the top, if so it knows about it and will expand into it when it needs to. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: TSM 6.3

2011-11-17 Thread Howard Coles
Anyone installed/upgraded to 6.3 on AIX yet? Just wondering if similar issues exist there. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Johnny Lea Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 10:55 AM To: ADSM-L

Re: Firefox users with TSM 6.2 Admin Center

2011-11-11 Thread Howard Coles
with an older version of java, just to be able to manage it until we migrated off. There have been other apps that had the same problem. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent

Re: Firefox users with TSM 6.2 Admin Center

2011-11-10 Thread Howard Coles
So far Google chrome works half decent, but I'm looking to install a 3.6 version of FF just for this. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Vandeventer, Harold [BS] Sent: Thursday, November 10

Re: tsm services hung on red had linux

2011-11-10 Thread Howard Coles
with long term communication, (such as a large (s)ftp job, or file copy across nfs)? See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:08 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: dsmc in linux

2011-11-09 Thread Howard Coles
/client/config/dsm.special.opt See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 4:01 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] dsmc in linux Thanks

Re: TSM Client 6.2.3.3 installtion issue

2011-10-26 Thread Howard Coles
I never thought about it but Rick may be on to something. Also, if you have tried to install the service before and it hung at some point Windows may still have some clean up to do before you try it again, so I would recommend a reboot. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message

Re: TSM v63 is out there to download from the Passport Advantage page

2011-10-25 Thread Howard Coles
customer base. I know quite a few companies who are evaluating changes already, and these kinds of moves just give them another reason to do so. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger Deschner

Re: TSM Client 6.2.3.3 installtion issue

2011-10-25 Thread Howard Coles
I've only seen that once in a while. I changed our SOP to use the command line install, as it's easy to just copy and paste the command into a command prompt window to avoid such issues. Especially since it can take a while for the gui wizard to run at times. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16

Re: TSM v63 is out there to download from the Passport Advantage page

2011-10-25 Thread Howard Coles
continue to support Vista at 32 bit, and yet not Linux at that same level. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Remco Post Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:38 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re

Re: Check signals on Power vs. x86...

2011-10-10 Thread Howard Coles
on the web or not. You can always check www.spec.org (?) or tpc for published results. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: Gregor van den Boogaart [mailto:gregor.booga...@rz.uni-augsburg.de] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 3:37 AM To: Dist Stor Manager Cc: Howard

Re: Check signals on Power vs. x86...

2011-10-07 Thread Howard Coles
on multiple boxes, or on a really powerful x86 box. I can admin AIX, but I'm much more comfortable on Linux. So, as someone else said, it all depends on what you're good at. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L

Re: Check signals on Power vs. x86...

2011-10-07 Thread Howard Coles
HBAs or 3 dual port HBAs, 16GB RAM, etc). An equally powered Intel box (with half the performance) is about 15K. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Shawn Drew Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 10

Re: ftp site for tsm

2011-07-12 Thread Howard Coles
I don't see on that link Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition or Just Tivoli Storage Manager NOT Tivoli Storage manager Fastback whatever. Try this: ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/storage/tivoli-storage-management/ See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original Message

DB stats look Off

2011-06-29 Thread Howard Coles
+ GB Free in the file system earlier today. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16!

Re: rc-scripts to start and stop multiple tsm client scheduler for linux red hat

2011-06-14 Thread Howard Coles
in your dsm.sys for each dsm.opt file, along with different port definitions to avoid conflicts. This works on AIX and Linux across our enterprise with no need to write out a pid file. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: tape encryption in TSM environment

2011-06-13 Thread Howard Coles
to have hardware drives that support that kind of encryption. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Mehdi Salehi Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 11:13 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re

Re: Netware backup restores

2011-06-07 Thread Howard Coles
won't have any support with Novell if you have a problem. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 10:11 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: who makes policy for TSM?

2011-05-23 Thread Howard Coles
officer, and compliance officer who should be able to help address those issues. I often tell people I do not set policy, I just enforce it, but I do in some degree influence it. :D See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Question about Hybrid method upgrade to TSM V6.2.2 and server-to-server export

2011-05-12 Thread Howard Coles
While we didn't do the hybrid method, I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work. As long as the windows boxes aren't connecting back up, you should be good. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L

Re: ANS1575E Journal Daemon Communications Error.

2011-04-27 Thread Howard Coles
I had the 6.2.3 client on a SQL Server as well, and it kept giving me a path not found trying to backup the registry (system state), and then wouldn't backup the drives. After I downgraded the Registry still gave me issues, but at least the disk drives will backup. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr

Re: ANS1575E Journal Daemon Communications Error.

2011-04-26 Thread Howard Coles
situation either. So, I'd say try the 6.2.2, and see if it performs like you expect, and stick with that until they come out with 6.2.4 or 6.3. :D See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf

Re: Filesystem preferences for tsm 6 pools

2011-04-22 Thread Howard Coles
On RHEL6 I would go EXT4, it's a solid update from EXT3, or has been from what I can tell so far. Besides, it's the default on RHEL6 now. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf

Re: AW: VStore Restore vmdk UPDATE

2011-04-18 Thread Howard Coles
: this is only needed with the 6.2.3 client, and newer I would assume. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Andreas Kaiser Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:48 AM To: ADSM-L

Re: AW: VStore Restore vmdk

2011-04-15 Thread Howard Coles
Great, nothing like, improvements to the client. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Andreas Kaiser Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 2:48 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM

VStore Restore vmdk

2011-04-14 Thread Howard Coles
Ya' Howard Coles Jr.

Re: Ang: TSM for DB password expiration

2011-03-25 Thread Howard Coles
you run update node server-oracle passexp=0 AND update admin server-oracle passexp=0, then it will just keep on using the same password. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf

Re: Ang: TSM for DB password expiration

2011-03-25 Thread Howard Coles
No, it's not different, Oracle TDP works the same on Linux and AIX. The only TDP I'm not sure of is the Windows version, but if I remember correctly it doesn't reset the password either. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: TSM 6.2 server hardware

2011-03-24 Thread Howard Coles
already uses, whether it be IBM, HP, Dell, or whatever. I used to use a lot of Compaq then HP stuff, and liked it, especially if you buy the addon ILO license, same with IBM's servers. I've never been a big Dell Server fan, even though I like their laptops. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE

Re: Solaris Include/exclude .dbf question

2011-03-21 Thread Howard Coles
They can if the client option set entries don't have the option for allow override set to no. I have just never tried in a dsm.sys to override one. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Solaris Include/exclude .dbf question

2011-03-21 Thread Howard Coles
/*.dbf Type entries in the dsm.sys file or in a inclexcl.list file as we do. Just remember TSM reads the list from the bottom up. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Hughes

Re: Solaris Include/exclude .dbf question

2011-03-21 Thread Howard Coles
trying to backup db files it'll never get right anyway. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Hughes, Timothy Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 1:52 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re

Re: Scripts Doubling up

2011-03-17 Thread Howard Coles
Storage Pool ORADSKPOOL, Moved Files: 43, Moved Bytes: 33,945,214,976, Unreadable Files: 0, Unreadable Bytes: 0. Current Physical File (bytes): 27,689,148,416 Current output volume(s): B00404L4. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original

Re: Scripts Doubling up

2011-03-17 Thread Howard Coles
how that works, considering from 4.2 all the way to 5.5.3 those scripts worked just fine. But anyway, I'm going to try staggering the times for the starting of each one and see if that makes a difference. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM

Migration, IP address change, and New Library at the same time - UPDATE

2011-03-16 Thread Howard Coles
this that would have suggestions on steps related to that? (i.e. set ip address on new server and change old, do migration, other way around, etc.). See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16!

Scripts Doubling up

2011-03-15 Thread Howard Coles
worked very well, as we have 5 storage pools, that vary in length for each of the processes that run against them, (backup disk, backup primary tape, reclaim offsite, reclaim onsite, etc). See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16!

Re: altering dsm.sys right before dsmc

2011-03-01 Thread Howard Coles
It should if the virtualm exists when the dsmc command is run, but you're going to have one of the longest dsm.sys files after a while. You may want to include something in your script that deletes previous virtual mount point entries so that doesn't happen. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE

Migration, IP address change, and New Library at the same time

2011-02-23 Thread Howard Coles
to that? (i.e. set ip address on new server and change old, do migration, other way around, etc.). See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16!

Archives and backups

2011-01-21 Thread Howard Coles
, without these kinds of results, so the follow up would be, what would make an archive just disappear? See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. RHCE, CDE, CNE Sr. Systems Engineer (615) 296-3416 John 3:16!

Re: Archives and backups

2011-01-21 Thread Howard Coles
Ok, that would explain it. It has been so long since I've had to worry about this I forgot all about that switch defaulting to any, and the two being associated. DOH Thanks. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: Problems with Oracle TDP

2010-08-13 Thread Howard Coles
up the maxnummp setting by 1 to give it that extra one in case the disk pool gets full. We'll see over the weekend. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Stackwick, Stephen Sent

Problems with Oracle TDP

2010-08-11 Thread Howard Coles
need some help on this. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. RHCE, CDE, CNE Sr. Systems Engineer (615) 296-3416 John 3:16!

Re: Saving a day of EXCHANGE

2010-07-27 Thread Howard Coles
You can do a point in time restore to another Exchange box, and then lock that down. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr., RHCE, CNE, CDE John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Fred Johanson Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:02 AM

Re: multiple schedulers

2010-07-16 Thread Howard Coles
Correct. 1st put all the opt files and logs on shared storage for the cluster. 2nd assign all the nodes separate port numbers. Main general rules for me in setting up a cluster (be it windows, Linux, or AIX). See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: LTO2s not mounting in LTO4 drives

2010-05-17 Thread Howard Coles
the suggestions, and assistance! The PMR was expedited by being able to answer many of the questions you guys asked. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Green Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 4:24 AM

Re: LTO2s not mounting in LTO4 drives

2010-05-17 Thread Howard Coles
to the list earlier as well, but by the time I came back to the list I had already opened the call. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 2:11 PM To: ADSM-L

LTO2s not mounting in LTO4 drives

2010-05-16 Thread Howard Coles
migrated: 0, Bytes migrated: 0, Unreadable Files: 0. I've updated the storage pools to drives for mount point limits, but I'm stumped. TSM will mount and use LTO3 tapes, but not 2s. Any help would be appreciated. System running on AIX 6.1 with Atape Driver 12.0.7.0. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. Sr

Re: LTO2s not mounting in LTO4 drives

2010-05-16 Thread Howard Coles
that may have something to do with it, but the LTO3 pools are not encrypted, and they mount up just fine. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. Sr. Systems Engineer (615) 296-3416 John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Richard Sims Sent: Sun 5/16/2010 2:46 PM

Re: mediawait during backup to disk

2010-05-03 Thread Howard Coles
as you have a good queue depth, but I would definitely break up the pool into multiple volumes. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mehdi Salehi Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 10:56 PM To: ADSM-L

Re: TSM 5.4 to 5.5 migration

2010-03-31 Thread Howard Coles
into the Windows Server as Administrator or equivalent. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of yoda woya Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 1:18 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 5.4 to 5.5

Re: Rename volumes or other workaround

2010-03-19 Thread Howard Coles
) Library, so YMMV. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Shawn Drew Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 2:19 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Rename volumes or other workaround A few years ago

Windows SAN Client

2010-02-26 Thread Howard Coles
, but then takes both paths offline, and ejects the tape. I have verified and reverified the WWN of both drives to make sure I was pointing them to the right drives as well. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. Sr. Systems Engineer (615) 296-3416 John 3:16!

5.5 AdminCenter Download

2010-02-23 Thread Howard Coles
the AdminCenter for AIX or Linux (either would work at this point). I'm just drawing a blank here as to where / how to get it. I had the physical media at one time, but can't locate it now. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. Sr. Systems Engineer (615) 296-3416 John 3:16!

Re: 5.5 AdminCenter Download

2010-02-23 Thread Howard Coles
Dang it I'm going cross eyed looking for all this mess. Hehe. Eureka, there it is. Yea, we're getting ready for a test and I wanted to make sure I stuck with what I had, and we still have 1 5.3 server. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: Reclamation for offsite storage pools

2010-01-27 Thread Howard Coles
of tapes back. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Moyer, Joni M Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 8:08 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Reclamation for offsite storage pools Hi

Re: RMAN error allocating TDP channel....

2010-01-25 Thread Howard Coles
/ and the 5.5.2 stuff in a /opt/tivoli/tsm/555/ directory) See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Mario Behring Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 10:40 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] RMAN

Re: Tsm license problem

2010-01-20 Thread Howard Coles
will determine how many machines can connect at the same time. Etc. etc. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of William ZHANG Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:55 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L

Re: Encryption

2010-01-20 Thread Howard Coles
would we create an unencrypted backupset (for example if it had to be produced for a legal proceeding)? I'm thinking the encryption options would depend on TSM application encryption, or did I miss some of that previous thread? See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From

Re: DataDomain VTL

2010-01-13 Thread Howard Coles
have the problem of needing larger and larger Disk Storage Pools because you can send the clients straight to the VTL. The only down side is that you send more data over the wire. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads

Re: DataDomain VTL

2010-01-12 Thread Howard Coles
Thanks. I don't want to do the NFS stuff with TSM for a few reasons, but this helps. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Strand, Neil B. Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:55 AM To: ADSM-L

Re: DataDomain VTL

2010-01-12 Thread Howard Coles
Performance mainly, having to turn off DirectIO to do NFS to volumes, and Security. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Andrew Carlson Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 9:36 AM To: ADSM-L

Re: DataDomain VTL

2010-01-12 Thread Howard Coles
Would he be willing to email or talk to me about it, if you can recall his contact info? I really need to get some firsthand accounts. :-D See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Kelly Lipp Sent

DataDomain VTL

2010-01-11 Thread Howard Coles
, and would like to share your opinion I'd appreciate it. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. Sr. Systems Engineer (615) 296-3416 John 3:16!

Re: Dissapearing Incrementals

2010-01-10 Thread Howard Coles
the way we think. Oh well, live and learn. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. Sr. Systems Engineer (615) 296-3416 John 3:16! From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Grigori Solonovitch Sent: Sat 1/9/2010 1:09 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L

Dissapearing Incrementals

2010-01-08 Thread Howard Coles
(CxO). I wanted to seek it out here before I opened a ticket with IBM just in case someone already resolved this problem. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. Sr. Systems Engineer (615) 296-3416 John 3:16!

Re: Dissapearing Incrementals

2010-01-08 Thread Howard Coles
' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 12:59 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Dissapearing Incrementals Howard, Your backup strategy will not work

Re: Linux client memory woes

2010-01-05 Thread Howard Coles
that as long as 64 bit processors have been out, we're using 32bit anything. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 7:40 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU

Re: Disparate Client Options

2010-01-05 Thread Howard Coles
In UNIX use the -optfile= option and specify an opt file that points to a separate Stanza in the dsm.sys file. Another way of doing the same thing essentially. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf

Re: unexpected result from audit library

2010-01-04 Thread Howard Coles
going to be doing this I'd be on their case hard. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of km Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 12:07 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] unexpected result

Re: unexpected result from audit library

2010-01-04 Thread Howard Coles
, physically move them out of the Library, and then check them in via the IO slots. Making sure to check them in as Private. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of ashish sharma Sent: Monday, January

Re: 3584 date off by 6 years

2010-01-04 Thread Howard Coles
Well, I just found it in ours. At this point I'd assume it's fairly global. If anyone gets / finds a fix, let us know. I have two 3584s I'd like to get back from the future. :-D See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads

Re: unexpected result from audit library

2010-01-02 Thread Howard Coles Jr.
sure that drive1, for example, is still actually Drive 1, in the right slot. You should also look through the Act logs and find out who was monkeying with the system. And, while you're at it, and it's down anyway, I would patch the TSM server to 5.5.3 anyway. -- Howard Coles Jr.

Re: admin password

2010-01-02 Thread Howard Coles
Do you have them setup in an Enterprise Management config? How do these two instances talk to each other? I'm assuming they are setup, other than being on the same box, to communicate with each other. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. Sr. Systems Engineer (615) 296-3416 John 3:16! -Original

Re: unexpected result from audit library

2010-01-02 Thread Howard Coles Jr.
them back to writable, and everything should go back to normal. Hopefully you're running offsite copies using DRM, so at the worst, you will have to restore the volumes from the offsite copies. -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. Sr. Systems Engineer (615) 296-3416 John 3:16!

Re: suggestion needed to shift TSM server

2009-12-31 Thread Howard Coles
...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Coles Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2009 12:35 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] suggestion needed to shift TSM server Make sure you empty and remove the disk storage pools if you have any (easiest, then you can just create new ones on the new server

Re: alternatives to TSM due to license costs

2009-12-31 Thread Howard Coles
from them, you can get a quote and buy from your normal reseller so your normal discounts apply. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Remco Post Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 4:15 PM To: ADSM-L

Re: suggestion needed to shift TSM server

2009-12-30 Thread Howard Coles
Make sure you empty and remove the disk storage pools if you have any (easiest, then you can just create new ones on the new server), or copy the volumes for them to the same location on the new server. See Ya' Howard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: How to backup Linux TSM backup Server

2009-12-29 Thread Howard Coles
I would highly recommend the IBM Redbooks as well. See Ya' Howard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Green Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 5:27 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] How to backup Linux

Re: tsm tdp oracle rman backups

2009-12-29 Thread Howard Coles
Steve is correct. (this is valid for TSM 5.x anyway) For Oracle RMAN Backups using the Data Protection Agent TSM is basically just a data repository. Since every file that comes to TSM is unique, and TSM doesn't and can't scan the drive as it would a file system, it can't tell if the file has

Re: MSSQL archives

2009-12-29 Thread Howard Coles
for an archive function to be available, but alas, there isn't one. See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. Sr. Systems Engineer (615) 296-3416 John 3:16! From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager on behalf of Shawn Drew Sent: Tue 12/29/2009 3:33 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L

Re: Tivoli resource Password Changes when migrating to other server in Windows cluster group

2009-12-28 Thread Howard Coles
Have the Cluster service set to replicate the following Registry Key: SOFTWARE\IBM\ADSM\CurrentVersion\Nodes\TSMNODENAME\TSMSERVERNAME That should take care of your problem. Works for us anyway. See Ya' Howard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: How does dsmserv daemon start

2009-12-28 Thread Howard Coles
, if it's already there, and the server will not start when you run /etc/init.d/dsmserv.rc start what errors do you get? (check your dsmserv.opt file and any appropriate log files for info on why it's not starting). --- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. Sr. Systems Engineer (615) 296-3416 John 3:16!

Re: 6.1.3 Client and Server now available

2009-12-22 Thread Howard Coles
So, did I take it right that table of contents in backup sets are now supported? That was a long list of fixes. See Ya' Howard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 3:34 PM

Re: Remove exclusions

2009-12-07 Thread Howard Coles
Either edit the dsm.opt file (or separate include/exclude list). Or, edit the Client Options file associated with this client. Those are the only two ways. See Ya' Howard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Avy Wong Sent:

Re: Reclamation Processing won't start

2009-11-23 Thread Howard Coles
If you are trying to get TSM to move the data to a new Tape Format (increased density and/or tape type) you would be better served to run a move data command. I'm assuming you have created a new storage pool if you've gone to a higher capacity drive type. However, 99% means that the tapes have

Re: tape library for TSM

2009-11-16 Thread Howard Coles
Well, you wouldn't want to start with NOT enough tape drives, and if it is a library it would have a barcode reader, I would presume. Fiber is optional, SCSI can be used, but if you need LAN-Free backups you'll need fiber SAN connected library and drives. The point is that it all depends on your

Re: Problems with 6.1.2.0 on Windows servers

2009-11-16 Thread Howard Coles
You will lose access to all the files backed up with a higher version of the client, but you'll get better backups going forward. (if the client version is a problem.) See Ya' Howard -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Zoltan

Re: Client backup activity

2009-11-16 Thread Howard Coles
Servergraph. Great reporting trending utility. You could create your own, more than likely, if a report doesn't already exist. Haberstroh, Debbie (IT) habe...@voughtaircraft.com wrote: Hello all, I have been asked to identify the client backups that are not completing in the backup window.

Re: different cartridge sizes in one library

2009-11-13 Thread Howard Coles
Yes, and remember to put the smaller drives at the head of the line in the library. That way the smaller tapes can move up to the smaller drives and the larger ones will stay at the bottom. I've noted over time that TSM will use the drives in order from 01 down, and if you have the larger ones

Re: TSM server move to new hardware

2009-10-29 Thread Howard Coles
Make sure of two things: 1. You setup your new server with the same hostname and IP address as the last one (which you've already thought of) 2. You import the LUNs in the right order on the new box. That is, if you're like us and have multiple LUNs making up the same logical volume. Other

Re: Remote Netware connectivity software

2009-10-28 Thread Howard Coles
Are these boxes NetWare or Linux? I'm assuming that you're saying they're NetWare, and non-OES boxes. Can you not use rconsole, or rconj? If you get a copy of ConsoleOne, it has rconj hooks, so that if you have a login to Directory services all you had to do was right click and slect remote

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